http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.1887399A Utah education blogger claims he was fired from a job at a language school after he wrote about homophones — a topic that associated the school with homosexuality, his boss allegedly thought.
Tim Torkildson had been working as a social media specialist of Provo's Nomen Global Language Center for about three months when he updated the school's blog with a post about homophones, which are words that sound same but are spelled differently and have different meanings, such as "peace" and "piece."
Torkildson thought it would be a good topic for the private school, which teaches English to non-native speakers.
But "homophone" apparently sounded a little too much like "homosexual."
Homophonia
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Re: Homophonia
It's similar to the feeling that anyone who uses the word "niggardly" is an obvious racist.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controvers ... ggardly%22
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controvers ... ggardly%22
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Re: Homophonia
Go up to Canada (if you're not already there), and you'll see "Homo Milk" for sale. The first time I saw that, there was an evil urge which tried to get me to go up to the staff and ask where the milk was for the straight customers. 
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